The Real Women's Issue
Mark Steyn is right -- it's the war on terror.
After recounting a ridiculous (is there any other kind?) remark by political philosopher Cameron Diaz, Steyn notes:
After presenting the 2004 Presidential election as a referendum on the right to rape, Miss Diaz might be interested to know that men enjoy that right under Islamic legal codes around the world -- and, given that more countries live under Sharia than did 50 years ago, that means more women have "lost the right to their bodies". Under the Taliban, women were prevented by law from ever feeling sunlight on their faces. Following the country's liberation by right-wing patriarchs like Bush and Blair, there are now . . . more females in electoral politics in Afghanistan than in Canada.
Left-wing feminism has slipped past irrelevant to silly to downright dangerous.
Steyn also tells the story of a roomful of men who obediently exited a classroom without a peep so that a militant could kill the remaining women. Most men are wonderful creatures -- but they're not complicated, and thus are a poor target for feminism's mixed messages. After years of "I can take care of myself perfectly well, thank you" and "women deserve to fight in military combat" (Selwyn Duke summarizes the attitude perfectly today at The American Thinker) -- well, one doesn't admire them for abandoning 14 helpless females, but one can (kind of) understand. For better or worse, men and women alike tend to live up (or down) to the behavior we exect of them.
Let the record reflect: Some women understand who the real enemies are -- and they're not President Bush and the all-purpose leftist villain, i.e. the "racist sexist homophobic phallocentric white male hierarchy." They're the Islamofascist terrorists -- and those who would distract us from the dangerous threats they pose.
After recounting a ridiculous (is there any other kind?) remark by political philosopher Cameron Diaz, Steyn notes:
After presenting the 2004 Presidential election as a referendum on the right to rape, Miss Diaz might be interested to know that men enjoy that right under Islamic legal codes around the world -- and, given that more countries live under Sharia than did 50 years ago, that means more women have "lost the right to their bodies". Under the Taliban, women were prevented by law from ever feeling sunlight on their faces. Following the country's liberation by right-wing patriarchs like Bush and Blair, there are now . . . more females in electoral politics in Afghanistan than in Canada.
Left-wing feminism has slipped past irrelevant to silly to downright dangerous.
Steyn also tells the story of a roomful of men who obediently exited a classroom without a peep so that a militant could kill the remaining women. Most men are wonderful creatures -- but they're not complicated, and thus are a poor target for feminism's mixed messages. After years of "I can take care of myself perfectly well, thank you" and "women deserve to fight in military combat" (Selwyn Duke summarizes the attitude perfectly today at The American Thinker) -- well, one doesn't admire them for abandoning 14 helpless females, but one can (kind of) understand. For better or worse, men and women alike tend to live up (or down) to the behavior we exect of them.
Let the record reflect: Some women understand who the real enemies are -- and they're not President Bush and the all-purpose leftist villain, i.e. the "racist sexist homophobic phallocentric white male hierarchy." They're the Islamofascist terrorists -- and those who would distract us from the dangerous threats they pose.
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